'Do Not Call List' Suffers Glitch

Updated Nov. 14, 2002 12:16 a.m. ET

Thousands of Pennsylvania residents who asked to be put on a list that bars telemarketers from contacting them are still getting telephone sales pitches, state officials said. The attorney general's office said Wednesday that a computer glitch may have prevented about 2,000 people who complained from being properly registered. The state's "Do Not Call" list, which went into effect Nov. 1, has been immensely popular. So far, about 1.6 million people have registered. Many complaints have been from people with the Philadelphia region's 215 area code who said they registered on the Internet, said Barbara...